1397 RES BEEN CALLED TO ATTENTION OF CITY COUNCIL THAT PLAT OF JOHNSON'S WOODS SUBDIVISION WAS DEDICATED IN PLAT SO FILEDRE.SOLUTION NO. 1397
WHERFAS, it has been called to the attention of the City
Council of the City of Paris, that in the plat of Johnson's
Woods Subdivision Plat 3, as shown by said Plat, recorded in
Book 5, Page 43, Plat Records, Lamar County, Texas, that a
street designated Allen Street, which begins in the West
Boundary Line of 31st Street, S. E. and runs West to the West
Boundary Line of the Johnson's Woods Subdivision, a distance
of approximately 120.45 feet, being adjacent to the South
Boundary Line of Lot 11, Block A, and adjacent to the North
Boundary Line of Lot l, Block H, each of which are in said
Subdivision, was dedicated as shown in the Plat so filed; and,
WHFREAS, it has been called to the attention of the City
Council of the City of Paris that Allen Street, as shown on
said Plat, has never been used as a street and that provisions
were not made for a connection to said street at the West
Boundary Line of Johnson's Woods Subdivision, when the
Preliminary Plat of the 2nd Installment of Merry-Glen Addition
was approved by the City Council on January 8, 1968, without
requiring a continuation of Allen Street; and,
WHER EAS, the City of Paris, nor the citizens thereof, have
no need for said portion of Al1en Street as a public way and,
therefore, should not be burdened with the maintenance of the
same, but that an easement for drainage and utilities should be
retained by the City of Paris; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS,
PARIS, TEXAS, That the Mayor of the City of Paris, B. M. Felty,
be, and he is hereby authorized to execute a quit claim deed
to the North 1/2 of Allen Street, from the West Boundary Line
of 31st Street, S. E. to the West Boundaxy Line of Johnson's
Woods Subdivision, to J. W. Harrison, the present owner of
Lot 11, Block A, Johnson's Woods Subdivision, and the South 1/2
of Al1en Street, from the West Boundary Line of 31st Street,
S. E. to the West Boundary Line of Johnson's Woods Subdivision,
to J. W. Harrison, C. L. Walker, Mary Helen Harrison, Patricia
Slayton and Laura Ann Stokes, the present owners of Lot 1,
Block H, Johnson's Woocls Subdivision, and that an easement for
dxainage and utilities should be retained by the City of Paris
by having the Grantees of the quit claim deeds herein described
execute drainage and utility easements describing that portion
of Allen Street being closed which is needed for utilities and
drainage.
Passed and adopted this llth day of January, 1971.
~B. &_Felty, Mayor
ATTFST :
H. C. Gre`ene, City Clerk
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T. . Haynes ity Attorney